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By default, WordPress installations use the ‘admin’ username. The admin account provides access to the WordPress backend such as the blog’s theme, pages, posts, plug-ins and so on.

As it is common knowledge “admin” is the default username, the security of a Wordpress blog is vulnerable, particularly when a large percentage use passwords consisting of part (or all) of the blog’s title! Any hacker worth his salt can attack this kind of weakness.

The solution

Thankfully, it is possible to change the admin login for WordPress to a unique login username of your choice, making your blog far more secure.

How to change the default admin WordPress login name:

Using your host’s MySQL administration tool (I.E. phpmyadmin), locate and select your WordPress database

From your WordPress database, locate and select the wp_users table (Note: the wp prefix may differ) and then click the browse icon

Locate admin and click the edit icon

Under the user_login column, change admin to your preferred WordPress administrative login name and then click go

Easy peasy! Thats it, you should now be able to login with your new administrative WordPress login username.